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- From: gfarrell@cs.sfu.ca (Gordon James Farrell)
- Subject: Re: Can I run an ST or a Falcon as X-terminal?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan20.233022.24728@cs.sfu.ca>
- Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <X-terminal?> <H.ea.3KFM1kotvAY@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca> <H.eg.Gcm4hqRltZY@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca>
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- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 23:30:22 GMT
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- In article <H.eg.Gcm4hqRltZY@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca> jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders) writes:
- > One of the biggest buyers locally for the ST a few years back was a
- >Government research lab that used ST's as terminals for their mainframe.
- >They found the ST was cheaper than dumb terminals for the machine, and
- >could be used for local proceessing as a bonus. I wonder if a
-
- This reminds me, when I was doing a co-op term a couple of years ago at
- the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, they were using STs as vt100/Tektronix
- terminals for their Sun server (they weren't using Uniterm, though...I think
- the programme was called VT650). I'm not sure there are many left, at this
- point, as they were slowly being replaced by Sparcs.
-
- Just a little Atari trivia...
- >
- >
- >--
- > John Henders
- > Vancouver,BC
- ________________________________________________________________________________
- Gordon Farrell |e-mail:gfarrell@cs.sfu.ca |"Shee, you guys are so unhip
- | gordonf@sfu.ca | it's a wonder your bums
- Simon Fraser University | | don't fall off."
- Burnaby, B.C., Canada | | -Zaphod Beeblebrox
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- ________________________________________________________________________________
- Gordon Farrell |e-mail:gfarrell@cs.sfu.ca |"Shee, you guys are so unhip
- | gordonf@sfu.ca | it's a wonder your bums
- Simon Fraser University | | don't fall off."
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